The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort.

Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.

A world where a majority had imbibed the lessons implicit within tragic art would be one in which the consequences of our failures would necessarily cease to weigh upon us so heavily.

Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.

as the determinants of high status keep shifting, so, too, naturally, will the triggers of status anxiety be altered.

Art was the very antithesis of crass moralism.

The quickest way to stop noticing something, may be to buy it—just as the quickest way to stop appreciating someone may be to marry him or her.

A sharp decline in actual deprivation may, paradoxically, have been accompanied by an ongoing and even escalating sense of fear of deprivation.

Judged against eternity, how little of what agitates us makes any difference.

Get busy with the issue! In this regard, time is not friendly…nor should it be.

Love has no time constraints.There is no time frame for when a person can fall in love with another, it just happens.It's spontaneous, unpredictable, it's timeless.

I've told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn't kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

Family is the only real wealth.

Why should you love him whom the world hates so? Because he love me more than all the world.

We are now on the threshold of a newer movement, with a newer hope and a new inspiration.

Mystery is truth's dancing partner.

I support any means to make real connections so long as that it does lead really quickly to real connections. It's the long-term online friendships and relationships that start to get a little hairy.

I don't think the concept of "directing actors" exists in the sense that if you get what you order from an actor you'll always get bad acting. Every actor is scared just like a regular person.

Never demean yourself by talking back to a critic, never. Write those letters to the editor in your head, but don't put them on paper.